Paladino offers fake solution to transit nightmares
It's the regular tea party style: point out an actual problem, and then follow it up with exactly the wrong solution.
MoveOn.org: “Shadow network” seeks to buy election
Shadowy groups are flooding Washington State with anonymous corporate cash to buy ads smearing incumbent Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, MoveOn charged.
End of drilling ban spurs controversy
The Obama administration said it is ending its deepwater drilling moratorium, environmentalists say the risks are too high, and the oil industry says the rules are too strict.
Unemployment at 50 percent, Detroit vows to fight
Though she is without full-time employment, Emily Norton works even harder today. She now has four part-time jobs but earns just one-third of what she made while working full time.
Judge halts “don’t ask, don’t tell”
U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips in Riverside, Calif., ordered the military Tuesday, Oct. 12, to immediately stop enforcing the controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, putting a halt to the 17-year-old law.
Lou Dobbs joins immigration hypocrite list
The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute recently found that Lou Dobbs, who fulminated nightly on CNN against "the illegal aliens" taking over the country, has relied for years on undocumented labor for the upkeep of his multimillion-dollar estate and the horses he keeps for his daughter.
Undocumented nanny takes on Republican governor wannabe
Meg Whitman's former nanny and housekeeper accused the billionaire Republican candidate of having "treated me like garbage."
Obama admin speaks out against bullying gay youth
After a wave of teen suicides by gay youth recently due to bullying the Obama administration is speaking out saying no young person should have to endure a life of relentless taunts and harassment.
Air pollution and diabetes: Pollution levels too high
A new national study has found that there is a statistical correlation between exposure to air pollution and adult diabetes.
Sparks fly at Ohio Senate debate
Fisher blasted Portman as a tool of Wall Street and a "rubber stamp" for those seeking to return to the "casino" policies that caused the economic crisis.
